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soccer (revisited)
I was just looking at the Big List entry for "soccer." It gives the explanation I've read in other places too - and, lacking other etymologies, I guess it must be correct.Still - abbreviating...
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Maybe it comes from the angry rugby players, who left the Association, referring to the ones who stayed as "suckas".
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I've no evidence for this but might it not have stemmed for the abbreviation Assoc., as in Football Assoc., or Assoc. Football? This gives the required hard c sound of soccer and it's a small step...
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